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Sentences starting with somebody

Somebody has been writing to me about "Oatmeal and Literature," and somebody else wants to know whether I have found character influenced by diet; also whether, in my opinion, oatmeal is preferable to pie as an American national food. [6]
Somebody said he was in the hall a moment ago, on a Ripton credential. [9]
Somebody suggested doubts to him about the response. [4]
Somebody was going to die this time. [5]
Somebody said that those who were accustomed to luxury at home liked Rodick's, and that those who were not grumbled. [4]
Somebody has got the start, and gone to sleep. [4]
Somebody buys all the quack medicines that build palaces for the mushroom, say rather, the toadstool millionaires. [3]
Somebody came to the end, and there was nothing beyond. [4]
Somebody has declared that there are only seven plots in the world. [9]
Somebody has said that in order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony. [5]

Sentences ending with somebody

I knew you were somebody. [9]
If he wants to send a cheque away, he buys one for cash from somebody. [11]
They ain't begun to sell her yet--he's waitin' for somebody. [9]
He's always wanting to fight with somebody. [9]
There comes a time for every book in a library when it is wanted by somebody. [3]
Strike a light there, somebody. [5]
He couldn't take the property with him, it is said; he was obliged to leave it to somebody. [4]
I told Irene that when you came I guess we should know somebody. [4]
I want to talk to somebody. [5]
Why, I'm just starving to shake hands with somebody! [5]

Short sentences using somebody

Because somebody told you. [5]
No--it's somebody snoring, Tom. [5]
I guess she's somebody. [8]
She must see somebody. [4]
Somebody else done it. [5]
He's somebody, ain't he? [9]
Somebody must pay for it. [6]
Somebody pinched his arm. [5]
Somebody is tricked again. [9]
Somebody was dead. [5]

Sentences containing somebody two or more times

Now if somebody would come along and offer $3,000--Uh, if somebody only would come along and offer $3,000 for that Tennessee Land. [5]
I knew there was a young lady in it, and that somebody was in love with her, and she was in love with him, and somebody (an old tutor, I believe) wanted to interfere, and, very naturally, the young lady was too sharp for him. [6]
You have got to have different people in it, and have 'em talk, just as they do in books; and somebody is in love and somebody dies, and the like of that. [4]
The habit of thinking you would shoot somebody some time-- somebody you had injured--might become too much for you to-day, and then I should have to kill you, and for your wife's sake I don't want to do that. [11]
They've got a right to come up and buy drinks at the bar yonder forrard, and they take that chance to bribe somebody to keep watch on me--porter or boots or somebody. [5]
Then you must read some notices of it by somebody that loves you and one or two by somebody that hates you. [6]
If such a public character was not to be had, so that there was no chance of heading the Report with the name of the Honorable Mr. Somebody, the next best thing was to get the Reverend Dr. Somebody to take that conspicuous position. [6]
Somebody is always cutting wood to feed it; somebody is busy most of the time gathering in the sap; somebody is required to watch the kettles that they do not boil over, and to fill them. [4]
After what seemed a long, long time, somebody sighed, somebody else stirred in his seat; presently, the men dropped into a low murmur of confidential talk, each with his neighbor, and the incident was closed. [5]

More example sentences with the word somebody in them

You'd made up your mind to murder somebody this mornin'--I knowed it perfectly well. [5]
By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork. [5]
And you, sir--don't you know there has been somebody ill here, that you knock as if you'd beat the door down? [12]
How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
As soon as you get a few thousand people together in a town, there is somebody that every sharp thing you say is sure to hit. [6]
Well, I suppose you can easily get somebody else to do Lindau's work for you. [8]
For instance, somebody would mention a name. [5]
I wish you would learn of Everett what he would take, over and above a discharge for all the trouble we have been at, to take his business out of our hands and give it to somebody else. [7]
I wish somebody would come along and offer us a cabbage for it --you'd see! [5]
I wish somebody would change that subject; that is a very sore subject to me. [5]
I thought it would be better that I should come than somebody quite strange. [12]
It made short work of the experimenter--and of his family, too, if he murdered somebody who belonged up among the ornamental ranks. [5]
It isn't the 'work exactly, but the oversight, the details; and the fact is that I want somebody near me whom I can trust, whether I'm here or whether I'm away. [4]
And so, people without a hall-mark of their own are always trying to get the loan of somebody else's. [5]
Go when you will, you find somebody snuffling over that tomb. [5]
Some day somebody will recruit my 200--my dear beguilesome Knights of the Golden Fleece--and you will see them make good their ominous name. [5]
Some day somebody will import it into Europe and sell it for cheese. [5]
Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion--or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange. [6]
I can't tell whether I've got to look out for something else or somebody else. [8]
At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
You might as well murder somebody and have the credit of it, as get into the newspapers the way I have. [5]
You know how we used to burn the stumps out; and then somebody invented a stump-extractor, and we pulled them out with a yoke of oxen. [8]
What's the reason we couldn't get somebody else to take us just as well? [8]
But at times we also breathed a prayer--a prayer that somebody or something would come and carry off Van Blaricom, whose satire, born and nurtured in Chicago, was ever turned against Hawaii and all that therein was. [11]
He said he was willing to steer the whale-boat himself, but he must have somebody to man her. [5]
She said it was splendid, but it looked like somebody else's house. [4]
She wished there was somebody to take her love to Kit. [12]
I thought there was somebody dead here. [12]
But the joy was short-lived, for somebody asked how we were going to get the animals over. [5]
If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it himself. [5]
May we ne'er want a friend, or a-- Somebody to the lodger, eh, Mr Richard? [12]
If he had waited, however, somebody else would have discovered it,--perhaps some Englishman; and then we might have been spared all the old French and Spanish wars. [4]
We had to wait until somebody should come along. [5]
We got up very much jaded, at dawn, and stepped out at a way station; and, while we were taking a cup of coffee, that Englishman ranged up alongside, and somebody said to him: "So you didn't stop off, after all? [5]
The dwarf was very much exasperated, and wanting somebody to wreak his ill-humour upon, determined to dart out suddenly, and favour Mrs Quilp with a gentle acknowledgment of her attention in making that hideous uproar. [12]
It was a very great and sincere pleasure to me to see the thing repeated--with somebody else as victim. [5]
You say with us, no doubt, if somebody must escape, let it be any one but he. [12]
When on the twenty-first of October his general expressed a wish to send somebody to Denisov's detachment, Petya begged so piteously to be sent that the general could not refuse. [2]
Suppose it should turn out that by the death of somebody in England he is suddenly an earl--income, half a million dollars a year. [5]
You see, Parsons' travels happened like this: When he first got to be postmaster and was green in the business, there come a letter for somebody he didn't know, and there wasn't any such person in the village. [5]
I suppose somebody told him at the top of the hill that there was nothing to arbitrate, and to get out and go about his business, and that was the reason he marched down after he had marched up with all that ceremony. [8]
There's somebody wants to see you there. [12]
Mr. Bixby, unknown to me, of course, sent somebody down to the forecastle with some mysterious instructions to the leadsmen, another messenger was sent to whisper among the officers, and then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke-stack where he could observe results. [5]
The countess tried to make him talk, but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. [2]
I would like to know, then, if they wanted Chase's amendment fixed over, why somebody else could not have offered to do it? [7]
That's right, stick to it, and after a while we'll hand the drudgery over to somebody else. [9]
The minister appears to have been watched by somebody in London, as he was in Vienna. [6]
And he wanted to git away from the subject, I reckon, because he begun to abuse the camel-driver, just the way a person does when he has got catched in something and wants to take it out of somebody else. [5]
If somebody were to discover an elixir which would make every one truthful, he would not, in this age of the world, patent it. [4]
It needs somebody to call attention to it. [4]
I was goin' through the barber shop," Mr. Hartington continued, speaking to Jethro and ignoring the railroad president, "and I heard somebody whisperin' my name. [9]
A long while this picture was thought to be Bindi Altoviti's portrait; now somebody will again have it to be the self-portrait of Raphael. [5]
Mr. Smythe kept this incident warm in his heart, and longed for a chance to get even with somebody for it. [5]
Since I had this experience, I hear that somebody else has related a similar story. [6]
What made you think somebody sung out? [5]
Now the surer thing and the wiser thing would be for him to ask somebody whether it was a good thing to take hold of. [5]
Several witnesses swore they heard Judge Driscoll say in his public speech that the twins would be able to find their lost knife again when they needed it to assassinate somebody with. [5]
At one of these halts somebody called out, "Look at Mont Blanc! [5]
I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him. [5]
Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and by somebody finds an old yellow paper that tells how to find the marks--a paper that's got to be ciphered over about a week because it's mostly signs and hy'roglyphics. [5]
Was not fatalism, then, the cheapest sort of belief in an unchangeable Somebody or Something, representing purpose and law and will? [11]
And the minute the words were out of his mouth somebody over in the crowd struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joined in with all their might, and it just warmed you up and made you feel as good as church letting out. [5]
The squeak-squeaking of the saddles grew very distinct; occasionally somebody sighed, or started to hum a tune and gave it up; now and then a horse sneezed. [5]
It would be the only monument on the planet to Adam, and in the matter of interest and impressiveness could never have a rival until somebody should set up a monument to the Milky Way. [5]
Maplewood Avenue is the natural artery, somebody will build a line out there, and if you'd rather have eastern capitalists--" "Why are you going to get this franchise? [9]
Down here in the Lower River, they drive some pegs to turn the water away from the shore and stop it from slicing off the bank; very well, don't it go straight over and cut somebody else's bank? [5]
The exhilaration of the long spring-board, the necessity of holding on to something or somebody to prevent being tossed overboard, put occupants in a larkish mood that they might never attain in an ordinary vehicle. [4]
If that is the idea, let me recommend the Senate Committee on Conchology to hire somebody else. [5]
He disappeared in the gloom of a "side drift" just as a head appeared in the mouth of the shaft and somebody shouted "Hello! [5]
I suppose, after the bank debt shall be paid, there will be some money left, out of which I would like to have you pay Lavely and Stout twenty dollars, and Priest and somebody (oil-makers) ten dollars, for materials got for house-painting. [7]
I know somebody that's worth fifty million thousand presidents,--and he 's coming,--my Clement is coming," said Susan, who had by this time learned to consider the awful Byles Gridley as her next friend and faithful counsellor. [6]
It was expedient that somebody should "see" the boss. [9]
You see----" At that point we were swept apart by the crowd, somebody detained me with a moment's talk, and we did not get together again. [5]
It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. [7]
The president knows that it is money fraudulently got, that really belongs to somebody else; and the gambler would feel that if the president takes it, he cannot think very disapprovingly of the manner in which it was acquired. [4]
The story is that he has a queer antipathy to something or to somebody, nobody knows what or whom. [6]
I reckon somebody that hadn't anything better to do started a prejudice against it, some time or other, and once you get a caprice like that fairly going, you know it will last no end of time. [5]
And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off, Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour--and even then somebody generally had to go after him. [5]
When a man's temper is up he likes to pour it out upon somebody there this is not allowed. [5]
If you don't tell the cause, and you are condemned, won't that hurt somebody even more? [11]
How could I tell him that my longings to do something, to be somebody in the world were never more keen than at that moment? [9]
Unless it was taken by somebody in jest--only in jest, dear grandfather, which would make me laugh heartily if I could but know it--' 'Who would take money in jest? [12]
Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. [5]
I am very sure it was Captain Coram, but I almost hope it was somebody else, in order to give some poor fellow who is lying in wait for the periodicals a chance to correct me. [6]
All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white glare, and somebody sings out: "By the living jingo, here's the bag of gold on his breast! [5]
If she was staying with somebody here it would be easier. [4]
From the very start me and Tom allowed that there was somebody sick in the stateroom next to ourn, because the meals was always toted in there by the waiters. [5]
So, says I, s'pose somebody has hogged that bag on the sly?--now how do I know whether to write to Mary Jane or not? [5]
If you love somebody, my charmer, that is not a reason to shut yourself up. [2]
They must have somebody, and they like a gentleman best. [6]
I must consult somebody, and it is nothing more than fair to give our young Doctor a chance. [6]
And I had somebody with me, so Dorothy said. [9]
The next time somebody will be weeping. [9]
There must be somebody who can get close to him. [9]
Here and there somebody was kneeling on the pavement, unheeding the passing throng. [4]
He must have somebody to mourn with. [5]
I reckon he's somebody they think they better be on the good side of, for they've tried to please him by hiring his no-account brother to help on the farm when they can't hardly afford it, and don't want him around anyhow. [5]
But there's always somebody spying around that gives notice to the governor of the castle. [5]
By and by somebody says: "Go for his daughter!--quick, go for his daughter; sometimes he'll listen to her. [5]
He was what somebody said Carlyle was, and what the American editor ought to be,--a vernacular man. [4]

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